The Internet Money Blog considers the privacy of our visitors to be
very important. This Online Privacy Policy establishes how our
company will use information we may gather about you from your visit to
our website or through email or contact forms. No information that
would uniquely identify you as an individual is ever collected unless you
freely choose to divulge such information. Our website may employ
browser cookies to enable certain website functionality, but will not
utilize cookies for purposes of data collection or download any hidden code
onto your computer. (Some of our affiliate sponsors or advertisers may
employ cookies for purposes of tracking commissions due on sales or
referrals.) We take appropriate precautions to insure that our website
and computers are free of viruses, worms and other malicious code. When
we install a link to another website, we manually test it to insure that
it directs our visitors to the designated location. We periodically
perform link testing and urge our visitors to report broken or
inappropriate links.
Visiting Our Website
When you visit our website to read or download information, we may collect
and store information about your visit for statistical purposes. This
data does not identify you personally. We may automatically collect and
store information about your visit similar to that detailed below:
- The domain name of your ISP (internet service provider) and the IP
(internet protocol) address your ISP has assigned to your computer for
your internet session.
- The date and time you access our website.
- The amount of time you remain on our website.
- The pages you visit while on our website and the amount of time you
remain on each page.
- The referrer who directed you to our website. This may be a search
engine or another website, or you may have arrived directly by typing
one of our URLs into your browser.
- The referral method by which you found our website. If you arrived
through a search engine, this may include the search string you used
that led to our website’s placement in your search results.
- The type of browser, operating system and screen resolution setting
you used to access our site.
- The User Agent string your browser used to access our website.
From the above information we may determine the city, state and country of
origin from which your internet session originated. This information
is used only for demographic purposes to help us improve website
functionality and quality of information presented on our site.
Any information that you provide on our website will be used only for the
purposes stated in this Online Privacy Policy, except as required by law
or if pertinent to judicial or governmental investigations or
proceedings.
Except for verifiable search engines and validators, WE DO NOT PERMIT ANY
AUTOMATED BROWSING AGENTS ON OUR WEBSITE. These include but are not
limited to anonymous agents (those which fail to supply a User Agent string
or deliberately mask their identity), email harvesters, blog comment
spammers, blog trackback spammers, offline browsers (downloaders, scrapers,
web strippers, browser extensions such as Bittorrent or Foxtorrent, and
similar software devices) and unknown bots (search engine spiders) or bots
masquerading as browsers.
We reserve the right to take any and all lawful actions to prevent automated
processes from accessing our web pages and directories. This is done
in the interest of keeping both visitor and proprietary information safe
from harm and to insure visitor privacy. If you have a genuine reason why
it is absolutely necessary for you to utilize automated browsing software
on our website, please contact us with complete details. If you run an
experimental or private search engine, you should provide a link within
the User Agent string directed to a web page which thoroughly describes
the nature and purpose of your bot.
Operating a browsing agent outside of the
prescribed parameters designated as appropriate for our website could
result in your being banned permanently from our site as well as from any
other site that we manage. If you use a standard browser in a
conventional manner to surf the web, you are browsing appropriately.
If We Ask You to Complete a Survey
If we ask you to complete a survey, we may ask for some personal information
(a range within which your age falls, for example). Any information we
request in a survey or feedback form will be used for statistical purposes
to help us improve website functionality, improve quality of information
presented on our website, and select website formats and topics based
upon visitors’ aggregate interests. If elsewhere on our website we
ask you to register to obtain a product or to receive information, we
promise that survey information and registration information, if you
choose to complete both, will remain separate from one another so as not
to identify you personally.
If We Ask You to Register
Our website content is free to all visitors. We may ask you to register via
a website or autoresponder registration form in order to receive specific
information not available on our website. If we ask you to do this
and you agree, we will handle the personal information you provide to us
in the same manner as described in “Data Collection”
below.
Data Collection
By sending us an electronic mail (email) message or submitting a contact
form, you may be sending us personal information such as your name,
address and email address. We may do the following with any information
we collect in this manner:
- We may store information directly provided within an email message as
well as any information necessary for the transmission, retransmission
or response to said message. This information will include but is not
necessarily limited to your name, email address, and any text and
attachments delivered to us with your email.
- We may choose to respond to your email or to correspond with you
further. In doing so, we may request further information from you in
order to properly respond or communicate with you. You are not
obligated to send us additional information; however, failing to
do so may limit or curtail our ability to provide further response or
assistance. If you choose not to provide additional information or
feel uncomfortable in doing so, please let us know.
- We may place your name and email address into one or more mailing lists
maintained by or for our company. Such mailing lists may be utilized
for any of the following purposes:
- To provide information relating to our website, our company, or
items we consider to be of special interest to individuals, groups
or the public at large.
- To provide respondents with occasional advertisements relating to
products or services we believe to be of special value.
- To distribute free newsletters relating to our company, our
website, or interests our visitors may have.
Things We WON’T Do With Your Personal
Info
We WILL NOT do any of the following with your email address or any
information you provide to us:
- Sell your personal information, including email address.
- Provide your information to any other individual, company or third
party for the purpose of contacting you when that contact is not
directly initiated and conducted by our company. We do employ a
well-known and respected third party to maintain our autoresponder
service.
- Bombard you with advertisements or any other type of communication
that can in any way be construed as spam.
- Utilize false or anonymous email addresses that prevent you from
removing your email address from a mailing list (opting out).
You will always be able to either submit through an opt-out link or
email us directly if you wish your name to be removed from our
database.
Disclaimer: Websites to Which
We Link
Websites to which we link may belong to businesses or individuals which
compensate us for advertising space, companies with which we have an
affiliate or other business relationship, or individuals, businesses,
organizations or government agencies with which we have no affiliation
whatsoever. Each website to which we link is responsible for its own
content, maintenance and website privacy policies, which may be
substantially different from our own.
The Internet Money Blog and its management have no control over any
website we link to and are in no way responsible for the content,
maintenance, privacy policies, or information collection practices of any
website not owned and operated by us as a proprietary or joint venture
website. Links to other websites are provided as a convenience to our
visitors; the presence of these links is not an endorsement by The
Internet Money Blog of any content, merchandise, service or viewpoint
offered by a website other than our own. Once you link to another
website, you are subject to the privacy policy of that site.
The Internet Money Blog or merchants and advertisers you link to
through our site may require personal information in order to perform
activities such as completing a purchase or delivering goods and services.
You should always verify that you have a secure server connection before
engaging in such a transaction. If you feel uncertain about providing
such information over your internet connection, you should not do so.
We reserve the right to amend our Online Privacy Policy without prior notice.
Any such amendment will immediately be posted to our website as a part of
this Online Privacy Policy.
If you have a concern regarding privacy or content relating to our website or
a website we link to, please contact us using our contact form.
Eddie & Ken
The Internet Money Blog
Online Privacy Policy instituted 10 August
2009.
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